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Professor Brian Cox on the International Space Station being a hoax (yes, that's a thing)
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Professor Brian Cox on the International Space Station being a hoax (yes, that's a thing) (Original Post)
progressoid
Mar 2016
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DetlefK
(16,455 posts)1. There is a magical tube. If you look through it, far objects appear near. It's a telescope.
progressoid
(50,743 posts)2. I won't believe it until I can smell it through a Smelloscope
DetlefK
(16,455 posts)3. You would need to know beforehand what the ISS smells like.
A closed environment... where as little water as possible is used... and whose inhabitants MUST engage in sports on a daily basis.
progressoid
(50,743 posts)6. I wonder about the flatulence issue.
Retired astronaut answers amazing questions about space
Q: Do you fart more or less in space?
A: More - because it's impossible to burp when weightless (the gas, liquid and solid in your stomach all mix together).
Q: Would farting push you far enough to get unstuck?
A: We all tried it - too muffled, not the right type of propulsive nozzle
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/retired-astronaut-answers-amazing-questions-about-space/story-fnjwlcze-1226776314758
eppur_se_muova
(37,389 posts)4. If they're faking it, they're doing a damned good job.
progressoid
(50,743 posts)5. Exactly, even ameteur astronomers are getting photos of it.
Amateur astrophotographer Dylan O'Donnell took the stunning photo on June 30 from Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia, using a Canon 70D camera attached to the rear cell of a Celestron 9.25-inch (235-millimeter) telescope.
O'Donnell received an alert for the precise to-the-second timing of the space station's flyover online. He'd been waiting for a year for such an opportunity, O'Donnell wrote on his website.
"If you think that it might be a case of sitting there with your camera and a clock, with one hand on the shutter release, youd be absolutely correct!" O'Donnell wrote. "The ISS only passed over the moon for 0.33 seconds as it shoots by quite quickly. Knowing the second it would pass, I fired a 'burst' mode of exposures, then crossed my fingers and hoped it would show up in review and it did!
- See more at: http://www.space.com/29889-space-station-crosses-moon-photo.html#sthash.A07FUVaC.dpuf
drm604
(16,230 posts)7. They're in on it!
Didn't you know that they're part of the conspiracy?
progressoid
(50,743 posts)8. Oh my dog. You're right!
They're probably employees of a secret government agency.
drm604
(16,230 posts)9. Sadly, there really are people who think like that.
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They think that anyone who produces proof must obviously be part of the conspiracy. It never crosses their minds that it would be impossible to keep a lid on a conspiracy that involves so many people.
Canadian Interloper
(37 posts)10. Oy!
Who are these fucknozzle shitwits? (Brian, one word is simply not enough, my friend!)
progressoid
(50,743 posts)11. Welcome Canadian Interloper!
Canadian Interloper
(37 posts)12. Thank you!
Archae
(46,797 posts)13. They're like this guy, who had his bell rung by Buzz Aldrin.
You see, us humans can't even tie our own shoes, unless "ancient astronauts" tell us how, the Earth itself is flat and NASA is infested with Satan-worshippers, and any and every natural or human-caused disaster is part of the "Illuminati/Jews/communists/whatever grand conspiracy to rule the world."